Please join us this Monday January 28 at 7pmET.  Details are below to learn
about Ohio's Barn Owl population from Delaware Counties resident Ken Duren,
Research Biologist from Ohio DOW.



Hope to see you then!

Darlene Sillick

DCBC Program Chair





DCBC PROGRAMS - All welcome!



     The Delaware County Bird Club meetings and program presentations take
place on the fourth Monday of each month, September through April, except in
November and December when they may be held earlier in the month to
accommodate the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. Please join us in the
City of Delaware at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Schimmel-Conrades Science
Center, Room 163. Conversation and refreshments begin at 7:00 PM; the
meetings and programs start at 7:30 PM. Parking is available next to the
Selby Stadium on the east side of Henry Street and in the lot south of the
Science Center next to Branch Rickey Arena.



Monday, January 28th: Status and Trends of Ohio Barn Owl Populations - Ken
Duren, Ohio Division of Wildlife.

     The Ohio Division of Wildlife has had a successful barn owl nest box
program since 1988. Barn owl populations have increased because of this
program to a record of about 100 known nests in Ohio during the summer of
2012. The success of this program has allowed the state to upgrade barn owls
from state endangered to state threatened.  In addition to increasing barn
owl populations, the nest boxes are used to monitor population change. This
is done through checking boxes for nesting activity and banding adults and
chicks. The Division of Wildlife is also testing a nocturnal call playback
survey to identify and monitor barn owls not nesting in boxes. This
presentation will highlight experiences and results from barn owl nest box
monitoring and the nocturnal surveys.



          Ken Duren has been a research biologist with the Ohio Division of
Wildlife since May 2011. He is primarily responsible for monitoring
grassland songbirds and barn owl populations in Ohio.  Previously he was a
Seasonal Wildlife Biologist for New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
where he conducted research on grassland birds, northern bobwhite, waterfowl
and aquatic furbearers. He holds an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the
University of Delaware where his thesis focused on distribution of northern
bobwhite in Delaware. He received his B.S. in Wildlife Ecology Research and
Management from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.




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